UK help and services in Mauritania

Services if you're visiting, studying, working or living in Mauritania. Includes information about trading with and doing business in the UK and Mauritania.

Emergency help for British nationals in Mauritania

Get help if you're the victim of crime, you've been arrested, or are affected by a crisis abroad.

Passports and emergency travel documents in Mauritania

Includes how to cancel a lost passport, renew a passport and apply for an emergency travel document.

Travelling to Mauritania

Includes travel advice and how to get married abroad.

Coming to the UK from Mauritania

Get a visa to study, work or visit the UK.

Living in Mauritania

Includes how to access healthcare, get a document legalised, lists of lawyers and how to vote abroad.
  • Use the online service to get a UK document legalised.

  • Information for British citizens moving to or living in Mali, including guidance on residency, healthcare and driving.

  • Information for British citizens moving to or living in Mauritania, including guidance on security, healthcare and driving.

  • FCDO travel advice for Mauritania. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

  • List of English-speaking lawyers and notaries for British nationals in Mauritania.

  • Find English-speaking lawyers, doctors and medical facilities, interpreters and translators, and funeral directors overseas.

  • Find out what benefits you might be able to receive while you’re abroad and how to export them from the UK or claim them while abroad

  • Find out how to vote in UK elections if you move or live abroad, including eligibility, registering to vote and renewing your registration.

Tax, benefits, pensions and working abroad in Mauritania

Includes how to pay tax, claim State Pension and get tax credits abroad.

Birth, death and marriage abroad in Mauritania

Includes how to get married, list of funeral directors and how to register a birth abroad.

News and events in Mauritania

Find out about the UK government's diplomatic, security and development work in Mauritania.

Trade and invest: Mauritania

Includes investing and setting up a business in the UK and doing business in Mauritania.
  • Choosing a legal structure when you're starting a business: the differences between being a sole trader and a limited company, including legal risk, registration and taxes.

British embassy or high commission in Mauritania

Includes contact details, opening hours and other consular services.
  • The British Embassy in Nouakchott maintains and develops relations between the UK and Mauritania.

  • This page lists guidance on how you can help yourself stay safe abroad, and the help the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) can provide.